As a guest at Tujia Cottage, if the host's table is placed on a plate of stir-fried bacon with squeezed peppers, there is no doubt that you are the most honored guest.
A plate of seemingly very ordinary dishes, it looks more ordinary, and the ingredients are simple grain flour and bacon, but it is very exquisite to make.
Let's start with the practice of squeezing peppers. The grain is ground into flour, and now it is generally used with special machinery, and in the countryside, each family generally buys one, a few hundred yuan. Usually, it is usually pushed with stone grinding. It is best to be a yellow bag valley, our area misses the most is Endan No. 2, but unfortunately due to the low yield, this kind of bag grain seed can no longer be bought. If you want to eat the purest yellow bag valley, it seems that there are still some small yellow seeds, but few people have planted it.
Mix the powder with salt, pepper, etc. in the jar to marinate, about a week after you can take out the spare, of course, put some longer will be better, farmers generally have sour powder on the head of the year, to eat when scooping some out, with oil in the pan stir-fry, the golden bright color is very beautiful, the aroma is also very strong.
Bacon is made every year during the winter wax month after washing the pigs.
Generally, when washing pigs, they must pick up a few helpers and catch the pigs from the pigsty. A few strong people were asked to get their hands on it, first grabbing the pig's tail, and then two people grabbing the ears, and the butcher hooked the pig's mouth with a ring, and several people lifted and pulled it, and put the pig on the pig killing stool. After the butcher bleeds, he lifts the pig to the loin basin and uses hot water to remove the hair, and everyone works together to clean the hair with a scraper and hook the hoof shell. The butcher then got off the pig's head and collar and cut a knife on the pig's back. Several people hung the pig's body on the stairs with their hands and began to open their intestines.
After the intestines are taken out, it is generally necessary to ask an elderly and overly thin person to help turn the pig intestines, put the pig intestines on the dustpan or large pot cover, remove the oil stuck to the pig intestines, and then carefully clean the pig intestines, wash the feces, and then turn the intestines over, wash them clean, and hang them. Generally, pigs are killed in winter, and this way of life is not easy.
The butcher divided the pig into two pieces, helped carry the two pieces of pork to the door panel that had been propped up earlier, and the butcher cut the meat into pieces. This is a test of the butcher's skills, and the meat cut by a good butcher is very beautiful and even.
The pieces of meat are dressed with brown leaves, then salted in a large wooden jar layer by layer of meat, and baked on the kang. Baking bacon is very exquisite, from the selection of wood to the heat of the pinch, the baking time is to pay special attention, otherwise the bacon will be baked. There are also places with low mountains and firewood that are baked with coal, but the broth baked is white, sour, and not delicious.
The baked bacon can be hung on the wall of the board, and when cooking, you can cut a piece down with a knife.
The bacon is to be roasted, otherwise the skin will not be eaten.
The washed bacon is cut into thin pieces with a knife and stir-fried in a pan. The roasted bacon is fried as if it has a transparent feeling, and the oil is shiny and very beautiful. Since it is salted, there is no need to add salt, just add various spices to stir-fry. Stir-fry the sliced bacon and then add the squeezed pepper, continue to stir-fry, and a plate of fragrant roasted bacon will come out of the pot.
The color and fragrance are beautiful, and people can't help but open their taste buds.
For your guests, the host will even ask for dishes, and even use chopsticks to clip a few pieces for you, so you must eat under such hospitality.
If you have a mixture of slag and mixed with squeezed pepper, it is also very delicious.
"Heza flour squeezed pepper" is a very classic set meal of the Tujia family.